With a cancel general title page and the original title pages to vols. 2-6 bearing the title "The works of Mr. William Shakespear" and the imprint: Printed for Jacob Tonson, MDCCXXIII

A supplementary volume of poems was also issued in 1725, "To which is prefix'd, an essay onthe art, rise, and progress of the stage, in Greece, Rome, and England [by C. Gildon] ...The whole revis'd and corrected, with a preface by Dr. Sewell. London, Printed by J. Darby for A. Bettesworth [etc.]

General title, in vol. 1, printed in red and black

Head- and tailpieces; initials

Ford, H.L. Shakespeare, 1700-1740

ESTC

Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shelved under G.4021.1 bound variously in modern red morocco with papier tourniquet (vol. 1) and ca. 18th-century red morocco panelled and tooled in gilt with spines rebacked (vols. 2-6). The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on all front pastedowns and that of the Cowper family, with the motto "Tuum est," on vols. 2-6. A small publisher's advertisement for Halliwell-Phillipps' Shakespeare folio edition is laid onto the pastedown of vol. 2

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shelved under PR2752 .P7 1725x (formerly 4591.1) bound in various modern library bindings

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